People are People

I would say about three quarters of our factories are operated by Asians be they located in Canada or Asia.  This is interesting trivia.  Not because ethnicity has something to do with a factory’s compliance or the quality of its product.  But in spite of the different cultures of where our contract facilities are located, factory managers throughout our supply chain are really not that different.  They: work long hours leaving limited time for families; endeavor to find a market niche that allows their products to compete globally; pay mortgages and send their kids off to university.  And when they have finally paid off their debts and seen their children graduate from college they begin the final stage of their long manufacturing careers (passing the business to their children as commonly done in Asia or shuttering it, which is occurring more often in Canada).